Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parshat Emor 2

therefore when we go to Israel we have to be careful not only about the way the food was cooked but even how it was harvested because even if you buy fruits and vegetables Raw in Israel you have to ask did they separate tiruma did they separate Mass said that they separate Master Cheney and so on otherwise it's called tevel and it's prohibited now in verse 17 and on we speak about blemished animals that an animal that is brought as an offering must be unblemished must be perfect if it has any visible blemish it is not allowed to be brought as a Corban the animal might be kosher if we Slaughter it and we check its lungs and we check its stomach and we check all the inner organs they're all going to be healthy the animal is primitive for consumption but such an animal is not allowed to be offered to Hashem because he has a visible blemish on the outside of its body now what are they Hashem spoke to Moshe saying Speak to Aaron and his children and to all the children of Israel and say to them a man of the house of Israel and the converts who will bring his offering for any of their vows or free will offering that they will bring to Hashem for an elevation offering to be favorable for you it must be unblemished for the elevation offering it also must be a male from the cattle cows the flock the sheep or the goats the three animals that we're allowed to bring verse page 681 what are these blemishes verse 22. one that is blind an animal that's blind or broken bone or a split eyelid that it got a cut in its eyelid or a wart or a dry skin eruption or moist skin eruption you shall not offer these to Hashem and it continues giving more examples of blemishes one limb is longer than the other or the hooves that are not split kosher animals must have split hooves if the hooves are connected it may be kosher for consumption but it is not acceptable as an offering another example one animal whose testicles are either squeezed or crushed or torn or cut you shall not offer to Hashem and we have a commandment Not to cause an animal to be sterile nor shall you do this in your land whether in Israel or outside of Israel we're not allowed to neuter or sterilize our animals uh even if it's not used for an offering uh we're still not allowed to do that for example some people want to um neuter there animals so that they gain more fat and they want to eat them like a ram a bull not allowed to do that or they want to neuter their dog so that it doesn't cause problems also not allowed to do that if you have an issue you should speak to a rabbi How To Go violin some more laws about animals verse 27 when an ox or a sheep or goat is born it may not be broad as an offering right away it shall remain under its mother for seven days and only from The Eighth Day on it is acceptable for a fire offering to Hashem so we have a rule that when a baby animal is born it's kosher and we can even eat it but to bring it as a korban first it has to nurse from its mother for seven days only on the eighth day we can bring it another law about animals verse 28 an ox or a sheep or a goat you may not Slaughter it and its Offspring on the same day we have a rule that the mother animal and the child the baby animal may not be slaughtered on the same day that means you have to make a decision who do I want to shut today the mother or the baby it doesn't have to be a tiny baby it can be an adult already a year or two and the mother is four or five years old they're both the same size I'm not allowed to slaughter the mother and the baby at the same time and on the same day the father and the baby is fine but the mother and the baby not allowed foreign now verse 29 laws of Thanksgiving offering Thanksgiving offering is but unlike shelame which can be eaten for two days and the night in between when you slaughter a feast Thanksgiving offering to Hashem it must be eaten on that same day you shall not leave any of it until the morning you can only eat it during the day and the following night but not the following day now verse 32 we learn about the two greatest Commandments one positive one negative you shall not desecrate my holy name this is a negative commandment of Hashem desecration of God's name which means doing anything in front of people publicly that would make God Less in their eyes which may be the way we talk and people say this Jew talks like that or the way we Act and that's a very severe transgression because not only we rebel against God privately whatever he tells us but we teach others how to rebel against God we make God's reputation lower in people's eyes and now comes the positive commandment rather I should be Sanctified among the children of Israel this is the Commandment of kidush Hashem sanctification of God's name anything we do positive in front of people whether we say a nice word or we Act nicely to others with good morals we in addition to that Mitzvah we also do a Mitzvah of kidush Hashem sanctifying God's name and one of the reasons we are in this world is to sanctify the name of Hashem so a person who sanctifies God's name is guaranteed in the in a place in the world to come and the person who desecrates God's name it would have been better for him not to be born of course there is teshuva for even desecrating God's name God forbid and Toshiba is to undo the damage by doing kidush Hashem by sanctifying God's name for the rest of your life now on page 683 we learn about the festivals the the holy days Hashem spoke to Moshe saying speak to the children of Israel and say to them hashems appointed festivals that you are to designate as holy convocations these are my appointed festivals number one Shabbat for six days labor may be done and the seventh day is a day of complete rest a holy convocation convocation means when people get together to celebrate and praise God together on Shabbat you shall not do any work it is a Shabbat for Hashem in all your Dwelling Places the next comes PESA these are the appointed festivals of Hashem in the first month on the 14th of the month 14th of Nissan in the afternoon is the time of the pesach offering to Hashem so really Passover has two holidays within it on 14th of the month is the holiday off PESA which is the holiday of the Passover offering and on the 15th day of the month is the Festival of matsod which is for a seven day period and on the first day is a yongtov a holy convocation you shall not do any work and on the seventh day it is you cannot do work now how does Yom Tov differ from Shabbat we are allowed to cook we're allowed to prepare food other kinds of work are forbidden on YouTube just like their own Shabbat now verse 9 the Omer offering when you shall enter the land that I give you and you harvest you shall bring an Omer which is a measure of your first harvest to Hashem you take the first barley and on the second day of pesach you bring it to the betamic dash the Cohen shall wave the Omer you grind it into fine flour and bring it to kohen it's a it's a communal offering so only one of such offerings needs to be brought the kohen waves it and verse 12 on the day you wave the Omer you shall bring an unblemished lamb as an elevation offering and together with it its meal offering shall be two tenth a far fine flower mixed with oil so you bring the corbanha Omer and you bring an animal with it and together with the animal you bring another Corban minha with oil and um wine verse 14 you shall not eat bread or roasted kernels or plump kernels until this very day until you bring the offering of your God this is the law of um yashan that until we bring this offering of the Omer we cannot eat grain that was planted and grew this previous year we can only eat grain That Grew that was planted last year before previous past peso but once we bring this offering all the grain becomes permitted now verse 15. the Mitzvah to count the omen you shall count for yourselves from the more the the the next day after the first day of Passover seven weeks they shall be complete until the day after the seven weeks you shall count which will give you 50 days and that day is going to be Shavuot which literally means weeks and you shall offer a new meal offering to Hashem so on the 50th day we bring another um offering of flower but this time not barley flour or wheat flour even though the offering of Omer which is barley allows us to eat all the grain but we still cannot bring the new grain to in betamic dash the wheat until Shavuot now we have another Mitzvah on shawar to bring two loaves of special bread from your Dwelling Places you shall bring bread that shall be waved two loaves made of two tents a fat they shall be of fine flower and together with it you should bring seven unblemished lambs and one young bull and two Rams for an elevation offering and one he got as a sin offering and two Lambs as a shilamim peace offerings I will turn to page 687. verse 22. gifts that farmers must give to the poor when you harvest Your Land you shall not remove completely the corners of your field that is called the farmer must leave the corners for the poor and you shall not gather the gleanings of your Harvest that is called lekkit for the which means when the farmer takes bundle of Wheat and cuts it if one stock or two stocks fall down on the ground it must be left for the poor cannot pick it up for the poor and for the convert shall you leave them I am Hashem yoga the next holiday is Rosh Hashanah speak to children in the seventh month month of tishri on the first of the month there shall be a rest day remembrance with shofar blasts the Mitzvah to Blow shuffle you shall not do any work and you should offer a five offering to Hashem these offerings are described in parashat pinhas next comes Yom Kippur verse 27 but on the 10th day of this seventh month it is the day of atonement and you shall afflict yourselves by not eating and might by not drinking and by not wearing leather shoes and no marital relations and you shall offer a fire offering to Hashem you shall not do any work on this very day for it is the day of atomic to provide you atonement before Hashem your God and any Soul who will do any work on Yom Kippur I will destroy that soul from among kids people there is a punishment of cared for anyone who works on Yom Kippur as well as anyone who eats on Yom Kippur the next holiday is Sukkot verse 34 speak to Children sing on the 15th day of the seventh month is the Festival of Sukkot a seven day period for Hashem the first day is a young Tov you cannot do work then come the six days of hola moer and on page 689 on the eighth day there shall be a holy convocation to you you shall not do any work The Eighth Day of Sukkot is also a Yom Tov cannot do work that day is called shimini at it's a separate Festival Sukkot itself lasts seven days the first day is Yom Tov then the six days of hola mowed and the eighth day is a separate Yom Tov called Shmi atere that the summary of the festivals verse 37 these are the appointed festivals of Hashem that you shall Proclaim as holy convocations verse 38 aside from the from the from hashem's shabbats now we come back to the holiday of Sukkot to give more details verse 39 but on the 15th day of the seventh month when you gather in the crop of the land you shall celebrate hashem's festival for seven day period the first day is a rest day and the eighth day is a rest day now we learn about the Mitzvah of the four species the love and the trog you shall take for yourselves on the first day according to Torah we take love and a drug only on the first day um in other places besides Jerusalem in Jerusalem we take it for seven days um you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of a Citron tree the atrog the branches of a date palm of date palms that is love Twigs of a plated tree that is hadass and Brook Willows that is aravot and you shall rejoice before Hashem your God for seven day period from here we learned that if you are before Hashem your God meaning in the old city of Jerusalem or in the temple by the the hotel you have an obligation to take these four species for seven days you shall celebrate it as a festival for Hashem a seven day period in the year and another mitzvah for Sukkot that is sukkah verse 42 you shall dwell in booths Sukkot for a seven day period every native in Israel shall dwell in booths now page 691 why do we dwell in Sukkot verse 43 so that your Generations will know that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I took them from the land of Egypt I am Hashem your God there are two reasons given for living in Sukkot on the holiday of Sukkot one is to remember the Huts the booths that the Jewish people dwelt in the desert and number two to remember the Clouds Of Glory that surrounded us like a tent like a canopy and like a like a house um throughout our 40 years in the desert verse 44 and Moshe declared that point in festivals of Hashem to the children of Israel chapter 24 we learn about menorah command the children of Israel and that they take to you clear olive oil pressed for lighting to Kindle a continual lamp aharon shall arrange it from evening to morning the menorah burns from early evening until the next morning before Hashem continually every day verse 4 on the pure Menorah made from pure gold shall he arrange the lamps before Hashem continued now next paragraph we learned about panim bread that was put on the table throughout the week and it was exchanged on Shabbat and kohanim ate the previous week's Bread on Shabbat verse 5 you shall take fine flower and bake it into 12 loaves you shall place them in two stacks six in each stack upon the table made from pure gold it was made from wood and covered with pure gold and you shall put frankincense on each stack in a bowl and it shall be a remembrance for the bread a fire offering for Hashem the following Shabbat they would take that frankincense and uh burn it in fire verse 8 each and every Shabbat he shall arranged them before Hashem continually that means they would take the old bread out and put the new bread on the table uh at the same time and then the old bread they would divide among kohanim and eat it on Shabbat and a miracle would happen that the bread would stay warm and fresh even though it was nine days old because it was baked on the previous Friday and it stayed until the next Shabbat page 693. the sad story of the blasphemer the son of in his Israelite woman went out and he was the son of an Egyptian man and he fought against an Israelite man which means a Jew whose mother was Jewish but his father was not he fought with other Jews because he wanted to pitch his stand in the uh tribe that his mother belonged to but they told him this is not your place you have to go to your father's tribe not your mother's tribe and he said I don't have a Jewish father what should I do and he didn't like that they went to court and the Court ruled that yes he cannot pitch his tent in the uh in a tribe of his mother and he got upset verse 11 the son of the Israelite woman pronounced the name of Hashem and blasphemed which means he cursed using the name of Hashem they brought him to Moshe and they placed him on the guard to clarify for themselves through Hashem and I verse 13 Hashem said to Moshe remove the blasphemer to the outside of the camp and anyone who heard him blasts him shall put his hands on his head and the entire assembly shall Stone him and now laws of cursing using name of Hashem verse 15. any man who will blaspheme his God shall bear his sin and one who pronounces blasphemously the name of Hashem shall be put to death by Stoney in verse 6 verse 17 we learn the rule of measure for measure if and the man if he strikes mortally any human life he shall be put to death and the man who strikes mortally and animal life he shall make restitution a life for a life here it means you have to pay for the life of the animal with money and if a man inflicts a wound on his fellow as he did so shall be done to him which means they have to appraise evaluate the damage and he must make monetary payment a break for a break an eye for an eye tooth for tooth just as he will have inflicted a wound wound on a person so shall be inflicted upon him find financially the page 695 verse 22 there shall be one law for you it shall be for the convert and Native alike for I Hashem am your God verse 23 Moshe spoke to the children of Israel and they took the blasphemy to the outside of the camp and they stoned him to death and the children of Israel did as Hashem had commanded Moshe this concludes parshad and more thank you for listening shabbat shalom um